Monitor system, monitor device, search method, and search program

• US 20080005088A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yanai, Shin
• Granted Patent: US 7,949,208 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7335 Graphical querying, e.g. query-by-region, query-by-sketch, query-by-trajectory, GUIs for designating a person/face/object as a query predicate end-user interface involving hot spots associated with the video H04N21/4725; end-user interface for selecting a Region of Interest H04N21/4728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7837 using objects detected or recognised in the video content
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19671 Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system

Abstract

A search method is provided so that video data transmitted from an image-pickup unit of a monitor terminal is accumulated, meta data transmitted from a meta-data-generation unit of the monitor terminal is accumulated, search criteria are stored in advance, where the search criteria are used for extracting desired data from the video data and/or the meta data, the search criteria stored in advance are displayed, and meta data and/or video data satisfying a predetermined search criterion is extracted when the predetermined search criterion is selected from among the displayed search criteria, and the extracted meta data and/or the extracted video data is displayed.

Claims

1. A monitor system including at least one monitor terminal and at least one monitor device,

wherein the monitor terminal includes an image-pickup unit configured to pick up an image of a monitor subject and generate video data;

and

a meta-data-generation unit configured to generate meta data indicating attribute information of the monitor subject of which image is picked up by the image-pickup unit,

wherein the monitor device includes a video-data-accumulation unit configured to store the video data transmitted from the image-pickup unit;

a search-criteria-storage unit configured to store search criteria in advance, the search criteria being used, so as to extract desired data from video data accumulated on the video-data-accumulation unit and meta data accumulated on the meta-data-accumulation unit;

a display unit configured to display the search criteria stored in the search-criteria-storage unit; and

a control unit configured to extract meta data satisfying a predetermined search criterion when the predetermined search criterion is selected from among the search criteria displayed on the display unit, and display the extracted meta data on the display unit.

2. A monitor device comprising:

a video-data-accumulation unit configured to store video data transmitted from an image-pickup unit of a monitor terminal;

a meta-data-accumulation unit configured to store meta data transmitted from a meta-data-generation unit of the monitor terminal;

a search-criteria-storage unit configured to store search criteria in advance, the search criteria being used, so as to extract desired data from video data accumulated on the video-data-accumulation unit and meta data accumulated on the meta-data-accumulation unit;

a display unit configured to display the search criteria stored in the search-criteria-storage unit; and

a control unit configured to extract meta data satisfying a predetermined search criterion when the predetermined search criterion is selected from among the search criteria displayed on the display unit, and display the extracted meta data on the display unit.

3. The monitor device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a meta-data-filter-setting-storage unit configured to store information about settings on a filter functioning, as criteria provided, so as to extract data for which an alarm is to be issued from the meta data; and

a filter-package-storage unit configured to store information about settings on a filter package including a combination of a plurality of the filters,

wherein the search criteria stored in the search-criteria-storage unit includes the filter and/or the filter package, and/or a combination of the filter and the filter package.

4. The monitor device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a search-criteria-addition unit configured to add another criterion other than the search criteria stored in the search-criteria-storage unit.

5. A search method comprising the steps of:

accumulating video data transmitted from an image-pickup unit of a monitor terminal;

accumulating meta data transmitted from a meta-data-generation unit of the monitor terminal;

storing search criteria in advance, the search criteria being used, so as to extract desired data from the video data and/or the meta data;

displaying the search criteria stored in advance; and

extracting meta data and/or video data satisfying a predetermined search criterion when the predetermined search criterion is selected from among the displayed search criteria, and displaying the extracted meta data and/or the extracted video data.

6. A search program comprising the steps of:

accumulating video data transmitted from an image-pickup unit of a monitor terminal;

accumulating meta data transmitted from a meta-data-generation unit of the monitor terminal;

storing search criteria in advance, the search criteria being used, so as to extract desired data from the video data and/or the meta data;

displaying the search criteria stored in advance; and

extracting meta data and/or video data satisfying a predetermined search criterion when the predetermined search criterion is selected from among the displayed search criteria, and displaying the extracted meta data and/or the extracted video data.